Malls · Tennessee
Peabody Place Mall
Opened 2001. Reinhabited in 2017.
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100k+ jobs within 45 min by transit
This site: 100,019 epa-walkability · all sites with this15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)
This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km
This site: 679 units in 5 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with thisBike network nearby
This site: 186 ways openstreetmap · all sites with thisGrocery within 800 m
This site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with thisHigh earthquake risk
This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with thisHigh heat wave risk
This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with thisHigh natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)
This site: Relatively High; tornado, heat wave, earthquake, cold wave fema-nri · all sites with thisHigh tornado risk
This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with thisLow social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)
This site: 0.13 cdc-svi · all sites with thisNational Register place within 500 m
This site: Ellis, William C., and Sons Ironworks and Machine Shop; Scimitar Building nps-nrhp · all sites with thisRenter-majority tract
This site: 76% census-acs · all sites with thisShrinking county
This site: -1.6% census-acs · all sites with thisTract income up 60%+ since 2013
This site: +64% census-acs · all sites with thisTract population up 25%+ since 2013
This site: +32% census-acs · all sites with thisWalkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)
This site: …index 19.3 epa-walkability · all sites with thisReinhabited
This site: Reinhabitation: office record · all sites with thisHousing
This site: Reinhabitation: office Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and office redevelopment project located in Downto extraction · all sites with thisMixed use
This site: Reinhabitation: office Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and office redevelopment project locat extraction · all sites with thisOffice
This site: Reinhabitation: office Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and offic extraction · all sites with thisRetail (continued)
This site: …abitation: office Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and office redevelopment project located in Downtown Memph extraction · all sites with thisFrom the authors' map
TN, Memphis: Peabody Place Mall/ServiceMaster HQ, 2017
• Reinhabitation: office
Now
| Status | Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) |
|---|---|
| Strategy | Reinhabitedauthors' map |
| New uses | officeextracted, unreviewed |
| What is there now | Reinhabitation: officeauthors' map |
| Retrofit year | 2017authors' map |
Planning
| Planning notes | Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and office redevelopment project located in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee that covers eight city blocks.extracted, unreviewed |
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Site context
| FEMA flood zone | X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL |
|---|---|
| EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m | 32: ALABASTER ORIGINALS INC; AUTOZONE NO. 4995 - ELLIJAY; AUTOZONE PARTS INC.; AUTOZONE, INC; BROOKS MUSEUM- SITE DEMOLITIONEPA FRS |
| Census tract 47157004200 | 3,180 people, 4,923 per sq mi; median household income $83,854; median gross rent $1,355; 76% renters; 15.8% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year |
| Walkability (EPA, block group) | index 19.3 of 20; 313 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 157 m; land-use mix 0.88; 112,608 jobs within 45 min by car, 100,019 by transit; 6% of households without a carEPA Smart Location |
| Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m) | 6 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 5 schools, 24 parks or playgrounds, 5 health, 9 civic, 82 food and drink; 186 cycleway segments, 402 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap |
| Opportunity Zone | noHUD |
| National Register places within 500 m | 15: Ellis, William C., and Sons Ironworks and Machine Shop; Scimitar Building; Stratton, Leslie M., YMCA; Tennessee Trust BuildingNPS |
| Housing permits, Shelby County (TN), 2024 | 1,395 units in 5+ unit buildings, 24 in 2–4, 642 single-family; 2023: 980 in 5+Census BPS |
| Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract) | overall percentile 0.13; socioeconomic 0.15; housing and transport 0.62; 3% below 150% of poverty; 13% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR |
| Other atlas sites nearby | 0 within 10 km, 5 within 25 kmcomputed |
| Overture Maps | place Peabody Place (restaurant, confidence 1.00, from BrightQuery, Overture); building footprint 13,642 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0) |
| Attention: Wikipedia page views | 717 since 2015; 717 in the last 12 months; peak 2026-07 with 166Wikimedia |
| Tract change 2013–2023 | population +32% (2,404 → 3,180); median income +64% ($51,198 → $83,854); renters 70% → 76%; median home value +29% ($213,500 → $275,000)Census ACS 5-year |
| Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract) | relatively high overall (score 97.3); expected annual loss $6.7M; high: tornado, heat wave, earthquake, cold wave; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI |
| Tax-credit housing within 1 km | 5 LIHTC properties, 679 units: Exchange Building (202 units); Patterson Flats (195 units); South City Phase I (114 units)HUD LIHTC |
| Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023 | 2,910 establishments (-5%); 43,694 jobs (-7%)Census CBP |
| Housing market in the county | typical home value $215,732 (-1% 1 yr, +12% 5 yr); typical rent $1,341/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research |
| Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024) | 17,697 vehicles a day on 1 (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 1,097 trucks; 33 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS |
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Elsewhere on the web
Retail history: Peabody Place on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here
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- retrofit already built
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History and original facts
| Now called / also known as | ServiceMaster HQ |
|---|---|
| Opened | 2001Esri 2014 layer |
| Gross leasable area | 300,000 sq ftEsri 2014 layer |
| Stores at peak | 38Esri 2014 layer |
| Anchors | Muvico Theaters, Jillian's |
| Address | Peabody Pl. & 2nd Ave. |
| County | Shelby |
| Census division | 6 · East South Central |
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Background
Peabody Place is a mixed-use residential, retail, and office redevelopment project located in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee that covers eight city blocks. The shopping mall opened in 2001, but closed in after eleven years of operation. It was later converted into office space for ServiceMaster.
Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.
Timeline
- 2001 Opened
- 2017 Retrofit: reinhabit
Sources
- Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) · 2014-10-02
- Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20
- Wikipedia: Peabody Place Mall (Memphis) · 2026-07-06 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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